Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
